Partnerships: Uganda
Partnerships
To ensure that our work is effective we rely on community leadership. All of our projects are planned and implemented in consultation with our community partners, and volunteers work with these partner organizations to help them achieve their goals. Throughout the year we provide financial and logistical support to their initiatives.
Partner Organizations Abroad
- SOS Children's Villages
- Sports Outreach Ministry, Gulu
- St-Jude Children's Home
- TASO
Montreal organizations
- The Mercy Project
- Limbo
- United
The SOS children's village in Gulu provides a safe and loving home for children orphaned and affected by HIV/AIDS and war. Through their family strengthening program, they aim to support families in financial difficulty to ensure that they can care for their children. CVAP provides support to the S.O.S family strengthening programs through the provision of live stock, home repairs, scholarship initiatives, and the construction of a library.
Sports Outreach Ministry, Gulu
The SOM organization in Gulu aims to support and empower the community of Gulu through education, employment, and health care. At their community center they provide daycare, agricultural training, scholarships, medical treatment, revolving loans, counselling, and a caring community. CVAP supports these efforts primarily by providing financial assistance for their revolving loan program.
The St. Jude Children's Home provides a safe haven for children who have been abandoned or orphaned, or have disabilities. Over 173 children are cared for at St. Jude, where they are provided with education (through the onsite school), health care, and a secure and loving environment. Currently CVAP supports the St. Jude Children's Home Health Project by providing human resources and material donations, and has recently attained an onsite nurse and clinic for the center.
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) was founded in 1987 by 16 HIV positive individuals with the philosophy of 'living positively with HIV/AIDS.' By working at the personal, familial, community, national, and international level, TASO takes a holistic approach to providing optimal support to those infected/affected by HIV/AIDS. TASO assists over 100,000 clients per year through prevention programs, counseling, medical care, social support, community mobilization, and sensitization, as well as HIV education. In addition to the client services provided, TASO has established a strong research department where various perspectives on HIV/AIDS are explored. TASO has also developed internship programs for students and the TASO Experimental Attachment to Combat HIV/AIDS (TEACH) program where HIV/AIDS professionals from neighbouring countries come to TASO to learn how to initiate similar organizations.
The Mercy Project is a non-profit organization working to support health-care initiatives in collaboration with sustainable community partners in areas where access is limited.
They describe their organization as such: We refuse to be overwhelmed by the challenge of poverty. We believe in small movements that make large impacts on the lives of those involved. Access to health-care is a human right and one that can be provided for these children, whose comfort and safety is our greatest motivator.
The Mercy Project is now able to fund a full-time nurse at the St. Jude Children's Home and supports their medical supply as well as other medicinal needs and demands. In collaboration with St. Jude Children's home, private donors, and CVAP, they form the "St. Jude Children's Home and Consolation Side Health Project".
For more information visit www.themercyproject.org
Limbo: An intermediate place or state of oblivion: the state of being disregarded or forgotten/ an imaginary place for lost or neglected things.
The Limbo project began as a photographic essay compiled by CVAP volunteers Devin Wells and Matthew Hood consisting of photographs taken during their time in the Unyama IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camp. This project has now extended to encompass all mediums of art that share the experience of working in Northern Uganda, and are used to raise awareness and funds for Gulu. It is our hope that we can raise awareness and critical engagement with the myriad issues raised by poverty, war, development, and international volunteerism.
For more information contact admin@concordiavolunteers.org
United is a charity dedicated to bringing accessibility of sport to the youth of Gulu, Uganda. United is an organization created by Concordia University students who, upon returning home from spending a summer in Gulu town in Northern Uganda, were inspired to continue helping the community they spent two months living with and learning from. Our immediate goal is to support the community soccer teams by helping to provide equipment; any piece of equipment that pertains to playing, coaching, and the physical set up of the field.
For more information visit: http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~r_leschi/proposals.html
